It's interesting to watch how what was considered good taste a short time ago is gradually becoming tired, cliché, phoney -- and in 10 years will look as outdated as 2003's web designs look now.
The software industry and startup scene is enormously fashion-driven. A lot of people like to pretend it's the opposite though: a group of ideal meritocracies building highly needed products based on rational data-driven decisions...
My quick-n-dirty benchmark for measuring the exhaustiveness of a stock photo website is how many photos I can find of man laughing alone with fruit salad. One of the staples of corporate promotional photography.
In this case, 0. Without looking too hard, Getty has 39. Of course, the quality of the search engine and tag database also plays into these results.
Given how often the same images gets reused, given that I regularly recognise many of the popular Unsplash images all over the place these days, clearly we need a lot more variety.
How does their business model work? Are they a not-for-profit or non-profit? Do they really get enough money from shutterstock click-throughs and donations to fund the site and image curation process?
> Only Creative Commons images from our community of photographers and sources like Unsplash, Gratisography, Little Visuals and many more are added to our photo database. We constantly try to deliver as many high quality free stock photos as possible to the creatives who use our website.
"The only restriction is that identifiable people may not appear in a bad light or in a way that they may find offensive, unless they give their consent."
[+] [-] StevePerkins|9 years ago|reply
(1) mountainscapes
(2) cityscapes
(3) fields
(4) pretty girls standing in fields, and
(5) coffeshop patrons typing away on powered-off MacBooks
... does the world really need?
Especially when they all come with washed-out Instagram filters pre-applied.
[+] [-] pavlov|9 years ago|reply
The software industry and startup scene is enormously fashion-driven. A lot of people like to pretend it's the opposite though: a group of ideal meritocracies building highly needed products based on rational data-driven decisions...
[+] [-] pierrec|9 years ago|reply
In this case, 0. Without looking too hard, Getty has 39. Of course, the quality of the search engine and tag database also plays into these results.
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[+] [-] davegri|9 years ago|reply
Thats how http://librestock.com was born. enjoy :)
[+] [-] rotten|9 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] dchest|9 years ago|reply
Another public domain collection I use: https://pixabay.com/
[+] [-] derwiki|9 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] kennydude|9 years ago|reply
> Photo Sources
> Only Creative Commons images from our community of photographers and sources like Unsplash, Gratisography, Little Visuals and many more are added to our photo database. We constantly try to deliver as many high quality free stock photos as possible to the creatives who use our website.
[+] [-] nnq|9 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] satuim|9 years ago|reply
Which is a large search engine for public domain images. Too bad the search sucks compared to this.
[+] [-] davegri|9 years ago|reply
[+] [-] przemoc|9 years ago|reply
I usually used sxc.hu so far, which became FreeImages.com some time ago.
[+] [-] jrbapna|9 years ago|reply
[+] [-] sleepychu|9 years ago|reply
[0] - https://www.pexels.com/photo-license/
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[+] [-] exodust|9 years ago|reply
You take issue with "free" and in addition there's some valuable lesson we should be remembering, but that's where you've stumped me.
[+] [-] fluxic|9 years ago|reply